Can someone please provide me with a comprehensive list of who we've actually singed?

[Burney]

I'm no authority on the other lads, but I can say with absolute certainty that Pepe will be an unmitigated failure.

This is a hostage to fortune, m. Your entire reputation as a chap who knows his football could be shattered by this. If he does well, you'll have to endure people telling you to get another hobby for years to come.

[Monty92]

This is a hostage to fortune, m. Your entire reputation as a chap who knows his football could be shattered by this. If he does well, you'll have to endure people telling you to get another hobby for years to come.

Do I strike you as someone who would be so unequivocal if I wasn't 100% sure I was right?

I mean, look at my Brexit predicti....oh.

[Burney]

Do I strike you as someone who would be so unequivocal if I wasn't 100% sure I was right?

I mean, look at my Brexit predicti....oh.

If he's a great success, I suppose you can always claim you were deliberately reverse-jinxing him.

[eastgermanautos]

If he's a great success, I suppose you can always claim you were deliberately reverse-jinxing him.

That is the trick. "The Oracle told you...only what you needed to hear."

[Monty92]

If he's a great success, I suppose you can always claim you were deliberately reverse-jinxing him.

He strikes me as the kind of player who would have been a world beater about 60 years ago, i.e. when football was still sh*t.

I give you the obscenely overrated George Best.

[Burney]

He strikes me as the kind of player who would have been a world beater about 60 years ago, i.e. when football was still sh*t.

I give you the obscenely overrated George Best.

I've no idea how good or bad Best was, since I never saw him play. Some people at the time seemed to think he was quite good, though.

[Luis Anaconda]

I've no idea how good or bad Best was, since I never saw him play. Some people at the time seemed to think he was quite good, though.

I think the very fact that Monty thinks he was over-rated, is (yet another) clear indication that he should get another hobby though

[Monty92]

I've no idea how good or bad Best was, since I never saw him play. Some people at the time seemed to think he was quite good, though.

The first footballer from a bygone era who would still stand out today was Maradona

And even then, I'm not sure he was much better than, say, Georgi Kinkladze.

[Burney]

The first footballer from a bygone era who would still stand out today was Maradona

And even then, I'm not sure he was much better than, say, Georgi Kinkladze.

So let me just clarify: you don’t think that great footballers of the past - given modern levels of training, fitness, nutrition, etc, etc - would be great players today?

[eastgermanautos]

The first footballer from a bygone era who would still stand out today was Maradona

And even then, I'm not sure he was much better than, say, Georgi Kinkladze.

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